Order Fulfillment for Startups & Small Businesses

As a startup or small online business, you need certain things when it comes to your order fulfillment provider.

After all, your order volume may be inconsistent, capital may be limited, and that means you can’t deal with big setup fees, big monthly retainers, a lot of nickel and diming, or high minimum order volume requirements.

But that doesn’t mean you have to handle your own order fulfillment, or settle for a second-rate solution. Here at eFulfillment Service (EFS), we’ve been the leader in working with startups and small to mid-sized sellers since 2001, and it’s because of a few reasons…..

Simplicity

We try to make things simple. After all, order fulfillment companies can make things pretty complex sometimes, which makes it tough for an online seller of any type or size to try to figure out what their monthly costs are going to be.

In particular, startups and small businesses need an order fulfillment solution that is not only fair, but also consistent and easy to understand.

Flexibility

Small businesses also can’t be locked into long-term deals, nor forced to hit big minimum order volume thresholds every month. Those types of constraints can lead to unnecessary penalties, costs and stress that make it even more difficult to compete with big brands in a cutthroat industry.

Our thinking is that outsourced order fulfillment is supposed to do the opposite….that is, to actually give ecommerce sellers an advantage. That’s why we don’t have minimums, we don’t have long-term contracts, and we provide a model that enables rapid growth for sellers, whether they’re already established, or just starting out.

Transparency

In our world of order fulfillment, transparency relates to a couple things: pricing and operations.

Unfortunately, when it comes to order fulfillment pricing, some companies have a lot of fine print and add-on fees which sellers don’t realize until it’s too late. At eFulfillment Service, we believe fulfillment service pricing should be simple, transparent, and without the hidden or tricky stuff, and that’s been our mission since day one.

When it comes to operations, simply because you’re a startup or small business doesn’t mean you don’t want or deserve full transparency with your inventory and orders. But unfortunately for smaller businesses, they often believe that there’s just no way they can get great service along with great technology.

At EFS, we have proprietary fulfillment technology that was developed in house and keeps both our clients and their customers up to date with their orders, and also provides a range of reporting and automatic notifications to free up our clients’ time and allow them to focus on other things.

Reliability

Reliability and service. Again, these things don’t have to be sacrificed when outsourcing order fulfillment just because you’re a startup or small business.

At EFS, we maintain nearly a 100% accuracy rate on orders we fulfill. We’ve been recognized on several occasions for our service, technology and reliability. We have a highly experienced, knowledgeable client services team that responds quickly to client requests. And we maintain an A+ rating with the United States Better Business Bureau.

We’re not perfect, but we try to be a viable, dependable solution for sellers of all types and sizes.

Affordability

As a startup or small business, you already face some tough challenges competing with established brands. It’s nice to have an order fulfillment solution that helps to level the playing field a bit, and doesn’t make it cost prohibitive simply because you’re not shipping 10,000 orders every month.

We not only make pricing simple, we make it affordable. We understand that some months you may not ship much. And that’s okay! Getting to where you want to be doesn’t happen overnight, and we make it so that our clients are able to continually take advantage of our warehousing and fulfillment services, even during the slow periods.

If you want to learn more about what makes us different, give us a shout, we’d love to chat.

Comments

I want to know if I give you some information, could you give me a rough estimate of your cost?
I will be ordering a shipment from China of roughly 200-300 packs of human hair. Each pack of hair weights around 8 oz. I know this seems rather small, but I am overseas and have nowhere to store my product. Once you receive the hair I would need you to store it. I would also need your logistics and distribution for orders. For every product that goes out I would want them shipped in my branded packaging.

Please contact me. I would very much like to go over details. Thank you for your time.

hello, We are contacting you from dubai. We have a carpet business and we are working on a new online shop to help us have some sales in the US. i would like to have a company help us with the warehousing and shipping individual packages with orders from client. At the same time i would like to know what kind of duty and taxes i need to pay when i ship them (sea fright) to your warehouse from Dubai.
we have 5 colours in the carpets and 5 size in each colour and we are planing to send about 3 of each that will be a total of 75 items. they are already packed in rolls and are in the below sizes.
6′ long by 8″ diameter about 40 Lbs is the smallest one and the biggest one is 10′ long by 14″ diameter and is about 85 Lbs.

Hello Habib, thank you for your comment. We work with many internationally-based sellers that are looking to expand here in the U.S., so hopefully we’ll find we’re a nice fit for your carpet business. Someone from our sales department will reach out to you soon regarding our order fulfillment services. Thank you!

Hi, this is Brian Kim representing Sovereign Brands LLC based in New York City. We are a wine and spirits branding and marketing company looking for a fulfillment service to pack and ship various POS items (hats, shirts, buckets, posters, etc.) and to possibly also ship alcohol (I understand not every service has the capability to ship alcohol and that’s okay). Please contact me at 212-343-8366 or at briankim@sovereignbrands.com and we may begin discussions to possibly working together in the future. Thank you!

Thank you for the comment, and for your interest in eFulfillment Service!

You are correct that we do not store, pick, pack or ship alcoholic items; however, we will reach out to you shortly to further discuss our order fulfillment services for your other items there at Sovereign Brands.

We are launching several interrelated products that accessories for corded saws. The items are pre-packaged. Dimensions of approx. 18″X 9″ X 1.5″. Weight approximately 2 Lbs/ea. We will receive approx. 5,000 units per shipment per quarter. This will grow. Shipments will be direct fulfillment of Direct to Consumer orders; Volume shipments to wholesale buyers for their chain of retail stores; and, shipments to 2-Step distributors who sell to their retail independent and chain store retailers.
We need to obtain approximately costs.

Thank you for the information. We would be more than happy to provide a quote for our warehousing and order fulfillment services. I will pass this information along to our sales team and they will be in touch with you shortly!

We are starting to market our product line and need to talk to someone about filling orders both from .com sales and to retail stores we currently use vendors for Walmart.com Amazon True Value Ace Hardware Menard’s and many more to come.
Please review our websites. Mel Kanar